Urology

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Renowned Prostate Cancer Robotic Surgeon and Urologist Dr. John ... (Business Wire)

Florida Urology Center, an affiliate of NMS Capital backed U.S. Urology Partners, adds internationally recognized robotic surgeon John K. Burgers MD.

[Palm Coast](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.floridaurology.com%2Flocation-palm-coast&esheet=53289641&newsitemid=20230124005340&lan=en-US&anchor=Palm+Coast&index=17&md5=b7d6009b509f678661782b9953e1f5e0) and [Ormond Beach](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.floridaurology.com%2Flocation-ormond-beach&esheet=53289641&newsitemid=20230124005340&lan=en-US&anchor=Ormond+Beach&index=18&md5=294d7ef4b78a4699d1c307fb915c14fb). John Burgers to our [care team](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.floridaurology.com%2Fphysicians-and-pacs&esheet=53289641&newsitemid=20230124005340&lan=en-US&anchor=care+team&index=12&md5=9ea12b85b92ae5c48602f91e9b7c97be) at [Florida Urology Center](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.floridaurology.com%2F&esheet=53289641&newsitemid=20230124005340&lan=en-US&anchor=Florida+Urology+Center&index=13&md5=a88d01d783c90954a1d55bdda276a2a9). I am impressed with the [highly skilled care team](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.floridaurology.com%2Fphysicians-and-pacs&esheet=53289641&newsitemid=20230124005340&lan=en-US&anchor=highly+skilled+care+team&index=16&md5=8eb14262d4380056827394e80d7ec1a1) at Florida Urology Center and their focus on providing utmost quality patient care in a compassionate, heartwarming environment where I can continue to progress and contribute in my career.” [BUSINESS WIRE](https://www.businesswire.com/))-- [Florida Urology Center](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.floridaurology.com%2F&esheet=53289641&newsitemid=20230124005340&lan=en-US&anchor=Florida+Urology+Center&index=1&md5=6abec1271e15f6786045c82eab285257) today announced that John K. Burgers will support [Florida Urology Center](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.floridaurology.com%2F&esheet=53289641&newsitemid=20230124005340&lan=en-US&anchor=Florida+Urology+Center&index=14&md5=5e66d1e3e4b5a693115c6b034592b9ab) in continuing to provide the most advanced, effective treatments for prostate cancer patients in the communities we serve.“ Burgers or to refer a patient, please visit [www.floridaurology.com](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.floridaurology.com&esheet=53289641&newsitemid=20230124005340&lan=en-US&anchor=www.floridaurology.com&index=19&md5=285b9e7d51df5062f3252462c966ec47) or call (386) 673-5100. Parr of Florida Urology Center](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.floridaurology.com%2Furology-physicians%2Fgreg-a-parr-md&esheet=53289641&newsitemid=20230124005340&lan=en-US&anchor=Dr.+Greg+A.+Parr+of+Florida+Urology+Center&index=11&md5=b67228ad4a47e9608401fa234957beca) stated, “We are honored to welcome Dr. [Florida Urology Center](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.floridaurology.com%2F&esheet=53289641&newsitemid=20230124005340&lan=en-US&anchor=Florida+Urology+Center&index=9&md5=3d7066549f88e1268206d0f69dd4c544) is an affiliate of [U.S. [Florida Urology Center](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.floridaurology.com%2F&esheet=53289641&newsitemid=20230124005340&lan=en-US&anchor=Florida+Urology+Center&index=2&md5=7956f017abd3501c975032bcd95bb5db) is a full-service specialty group providing [comprehensive services](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.floridaurology.com%2F&esheet=53289641&newsitemid=20230124005340&lan=en-US&anchor=comprehensive+services&index=3&md5=6d362fe16daf7b9cdeb203921b07b7eb) in five locations throughout Florida, including [Ormond Beach](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.floridaurology.com%2Flocation-ormond-beach&esheet=53289641&newsitemid=20230124005340&lan=en-US&anchor=Ormond+Beach&index=4&md5=a77399cd307c65e497e39177aef8fdc3), [Port Orange](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.floridaurology.com%2Flocation-port-orange&esheet=53289641&newsitemid=20230124005340&lan=en-US&anchor=Port+Orange&index=5&md5=778e783f85d59a7466e6ccd3fc02df31), [Orange City](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.floridaurology.com%2Flocation-orange-city&esheet=53289641&newsitemid=20230124005340&lan=en-US&anchor=Orange+City&index=6&md5=2f2d4d6e52a484647cb696cb39b108fa), [New Smyrna Beach](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.floridaurology.com%2Flocation-new-smyrna-beach&esheet=53289641&newsitemid=20230124005340&lan=en-US&anchor=New+Smyrna+Beach&index=7&md5=65b524f021549fab52a321088e3ffebc) and [Palm Coast](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.floridaurology.com%2Flocation-palm-coast&esheet=53289641&newsitemid=20230124005340&lan=en-US&anchor=Palm+Coast&index=8&md5=ae1af98b8a43217a9133e326067417ee). [U.S. Urology Partners](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fus-uro.com%2F&esheet=53289641&newsitemid=20230124005340&lan=en-US&anchor=U.S.+Urology+Partners&index=10&md5=f29cfa0c789e009279dc3c4a79515ebd), one of the nation’s leading providers of urological services. He spent five years as an assistant professor at The James Comprehensive Cancer Center in Columbus, Ohio, where he trained many urology residents and published numerous research articles.

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Urology for Social Responsibility meeting at UCSD looks at key ... (Urology Times)

"One of the common themes from the meeting was how to make this a better world for our children," said Manoj Monga, MD, FACS. In this interview, ...

Sustainability in the operating room would be another area where perhaps working more with our health systems, our hospitals, and our colleagues within our own institutions will be more effective than trying to come up with solutions as a national group. Despite what perhaps we think, they still feel that physicians command a large amount of respect and trust within their communities, and as such are very important and effective advocates for change. In particular, the schools of public health, departments for sociology, those would be some of the areas where we drew on heavily here at UCSD and others that other institutions could draw on to help guide them how best to effectively address some of these issues within their communities. They're the people who are going to be able to make the changes that are required to make their world a better place. That was the impetus for our inaugural meeting Urology for Social Responsibility to talk about some of the challenges and opportunities that face our society. Some of those changes stirred up a lot of interest, enthusiasm, and energy for trying to direct our community toward positive change," said Manoj Monga, MD, FACS.

Surgeon Dr. John Burgers to join Florida Urology Center (Becker's ASC Review)

John Burgers, MD, has joined Florida Urology Center, an affiliate of US Urology Partners, one of the country's leading providers in urological care.

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Dietary supplements for urologic conditions may pose risks to patients (Urology Times)

In this interview, Ira Sharlip, MD, explains the potential dangers these products pose and what urologists can do to help protect their patients.

It’s the responsibility of the FDA to identify and remove clandestinely contaminated dietary supplements and it’s the responsibility of the FTC to identify and terminate fraudulent marketing. Make your patients aware that there are fraudulent, deceptive, and misleading advertising practices in the dietary supplement industry and that there are clandestinely contaminated products which are possibly dangerous to their health. Patients should be encouraged to rely on treatments proven to be safe and efficacious through pharmaceutical studies and years of experience in the practice of urology and sexual medicine. I don't think that laypersons have the scientific acumen to critically evaluate the safety and/or efficacy of these products and their ingredients. But the FDA budget for oversight of these dietary supplements is way too low for the FDA to review all of the products that come to market in the United States. A pertinent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2015 focused on emergency department visits for adverse events related to dietary supplements.3 The authors calculated that there were 23,005 annual emergency department visits due to adverse events from dietary supplements. The drugs that are placed on the consumer market for treatment of sexual dysfunction or low testosterone often get marketed under a suggestive name such as “Rock Hard,” “Hard Steel,” “Rhino 69,” and others. The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994 removed the requirement for the FDA to review dietary supplements and approve them before they are marketed to the public. We have no way of measuring how often this has happened and therefore how great a threat adulterated “dietary supplements” are to the public health. It’s easy to imagine a man going to an emergency room for treatment of acute chest pain and not identifying that he used a PDE5 inhibitor because he didn’t know that there was a PDE5 inhibitor in the “dietary supplement” that he had just used. The most common agents that were found as adulterants were sildenafil in 47%; a drug called sibutramine, which is used for weight loss, in almost 85% of these products, and androgenic steroids in 89%. The dietary supplement industry is a large and growing business sector in the US, but some experts fear that some dietary supplements may not only lack efficacy but could also be harmful to patients via adulteration with pharmaceutical products.

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